Thanks for sharing another great review! I really like how the REB reads so I understand what you mean by the NEB holding your attention. I don't use the REB for serious study, but it's an incredibly enjoyable read. Knowing the NEB is its predecessor I'll have to keep an eye out for nice used copies of the NEB.
I've got an "Oxford/ Cambridge" reader's edition in some unidentified leather. I do most of my reading in the KJV, backed up with (N)RSV, but I do really enjoy this one. People often argue over which translation is the most literal but NEB, I think may be the most literary.
Great review and comments, thanks! I picked one up today for $1 at a library sale because I remembered you reviewed it. It's the non-study version like you show at the end. I'm looking forward to using it as a supplemental translation.
That's an excellent price! I found a calfskin 66-book edition in a used bookstore a couple of weeks back for $6. I've been reading it alongside the '77 NASB. Thanks for the encouraging comment!
I found your comments very good. You brought up some very good points on Dr. MacArthur's past and present theological stances. Excellent! I have a copy of one these Bibles and I would like to point out, I find the print too small and light for extended use--but what I find very irritating that some pages in the book of Leviticus e.g. are so lightly printed e.g., Lev. 22:18, page 183 and also some pages in Exodus are nearly impossible to read . I would tell a person not to buy a copy this Bible unless they carefully check out the copy to make sure it does not have this printing error.
I appreciate your review, it was well done, Thank you. I purchased one (Bible) like it at a thrift store for $7 And a separate Bible of the New testament for $3. A two for $10 +tax deal.
Thank you for the review, I was able to snag a leather bound copy of this many years ago. I've always liked the Times New Roman typeface of the text. I am pretty sure that it was the NEB translation of Ecclesiasticus that was read at Prince Philips funeral a few years ago.
Thanks. I enjoy making them, but I think I should cut them down to about 30 minutes. Maybe I'll collect all the data about dimensions, font size, paper thickness, and margins on a single chart and show that for 10 seconds. That could give me time to show other details. For the NEB, had I had more time, I would have shown some of the unusual (perhaps questionable) choices the NEB translators made regarding the underlying Greek to translate.
@@RGrantJones cutting down the time is an easy fix. I like that the Bibles you review are somewhat obscure or more academic. I watch other Bible reviews and there are only so many KJV reviews you can watch. I'm also an Oxford man myself, on my fourth Oxford Annot. NRSV (4th ed.). If you get around to reviewing the new 5th ed. Id be grateful.
Thanks. The NEB's been out of print for decades now, I think since about 1989 when its replacement, the Revised English Bible (REB), was published. I never acquired a copy of the REB because I couldn't find one in a typesetting I liked. I think the publishers did a better job with the NEB, and inexpensive used copies are readily available on Amazon and eBay if you decide you'd like to examine it.
That is the reason I like using my NLT study bible, it reads very nice and is basically a commentary...Unless someone uses it as their only bible, then it is Gods word😁 It is odd they chose wind and not God for Genesis 1, they could have used both leaving no need for a footnote at all😉 Blessings brother and thanks for another great show.
Thanks, Airik1111. Come to think of it, it's possible that the original Living Bible was inspired by the NEB and the Jerusalem Bible. Both were very free translations, and both came out in the 1960s, a little before the Living Bible was published. I think perhaps in the post-WWII era translators were looking at themselves as artists -- valuing their artistic freedom -- and they didn't want to shackle their free spirits with the Establishment's old school literalism.
Is the reader’s edition/non-study edition from that time period in red cloth hardcover also glued or sewn binding typically? I’d love to get one rebound.
It's also suspect that I can't find any version of the "New English Bible" online to read and test. In another video review, a guy had a Cambridge one and it said it was not for sale outside of the U.S. and Canada....
REB oxford study bible (1992) is sold in amazon. REB seems mainly used in UK and amazon.co.uk does have several editions like the REB oxford study bible (1992).
@@RGrantJones I dislike the standard text edition with Swift typeface. There are older printings of this with a better face I can't remember the name of. But the best REB for typeface is the Oxford Study Bible REB, in classic Baskerville.
@@ScottKnitter - I saw an Oxford Study Bible ReB in a used book store last week. I would have picked it up, but the binding was loose, pages were dog-eared, and the previous owner had underlined and written in it (in a sloppy manner). I'll keep my eyes open for a nicer one.
G-d is not a man, nor the son of man. After 20 centuries of lies, we find the Correct explanation for Isaiah 53, in the related notes. Congratulations to the translators! '' Christianity is in greater contrast to Judaism than to paganism. " Johann Wolfgang GOETHE, Maximen und Reflexionen, 625